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Mrs. Squeers stood at one of the desks, presiding over
an immense basin of brimstone and treacle, of which delicious compound
she administered a large instalment to each boy in succession: using
for the purpose a common wooden spoon, which might have been
originally manufactured for some gigantic top, and which widened every
young gentleman's mouth considerably; they being all obliged, under
heavy corporal penalties, to take in the whole of the bowl at a gasp.
[Ch. 8]